Hi, again,

 > . Every X application
 > lauches this slow. It takes minutes for even
 > very simple applications to appear. Once an application
 > is launched, it seems to be running at full speed,
 > snappy and all that. It is not related to KDE itself,
 > since launching X with only twm gives the same
 > result (e.g. laucnhing xemacs takes forever).

The obvious problem and solution was pointed out to
me, the hostname resolution was not correct (i.e.
/etc/hosts did not have an entry for my newly set
hostname, <blush>), and thus the timeouts in the
X app launching.

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